Farmers end their 10-day Qld CSG blockade

Farmers flung their hats onto the ground in the classic Aussie challenge to a fight at the end of a 10-day blockade of a coal seam gas (CSG) drilling site south of Brisbane.

The protest wound up on Saturday as Chinese-owned mining company Arrow Energy pulled its rigs out of the Scenic Rim.

Arrow Energy says it has completed its CSG explorations at Kerry near Beaudesert and the site has been closed down.

"The exploration drilling of the past few days will provide Arrow with further information about the area's geology, potential coal seams and groundwater," the company said in a statement.

Blockade organiser Heidi Ross said at the end of the protest - during which police made 15 arrests - there was an outpouring of emotion from local farmers.

"There were about 100 landholders there and it was very, very emotional, there is a lot of anger still in this community," she told AAP.

"Local Farmer Rod Anderson threw his hat into the dirt in front of the departing drilling rig in the classic Australian challenge to a fight."

Other hats and an Australian flag landed in the path of the trucks.

Ms Ross said police picked up the flag, but the trucks drove over the hats.

"They squashed the Akubras, but they'll be dusted off and worn again with pride.

"Akubras are very resilient and so is the Australian bush.

"Arrow Energy really needs to hear that this community and many others around Australia will start to challenge what they see as their right to protect their agriculture, their water, and even other industries like tourism."

He said it was infuriating that good citizens and farmers had to set up a blockade and bark at cars like mongrel dogs.

"That's bulls***, it's not fair," he told the crowd.

"By gee there's a lot of bloody locals here that have had enough and I tell ya what, if that rig or any other rig comes back into this community there will be a s***load more people that'll stand up, and then we're in for a good fight."